Washing-machine



(No Model.)

, J. O. BURT.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 451,688. Patented May 5,1891.

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P TENT OFFICE.

JOHN c. BURT, or HADDAM, KANSAS.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,688, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed geptember 24, 1890. Serial No. 366,162. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. BURT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haddam, in the countyof Washington and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-lVIachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an oscillating washing-machine in which the tub swings or oscillates whilea pendent dasher projecting down into the tub remains stationary.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of same. Fig. 3 is a Fig. 4- is a view of one of the bearing-plates. Fig. 5 is a View of the pendent dasher-bar. Fig. 6 is an end view of the dasher-frame.

The frame A is of a rectangular shape, and has side bars 19 and end pieces a, and may be made of wood or metal. The tub B is supported and hangs pendent from the yokeshaped dasher-bar O. This dasher-bar O has two vertical side arms d, connected together, like a swing, by a horizontal part c. The upper end of each side arm has a lateral trunnion f, from which the tub l3 hangs and swings, and the extremity of each trunnion has a transverse plate g, which, with the trunnion, forms a T-shaped end. The two transverse plates 9 rest upon the top side bars b of the frame, to which they are secured by screws h, and the side arms at hang pendent from the trunnions f. The tub B has a segment-shaped bottom 2'. Its sides j, near the top, have a slot 70, and on the outer side are provided with a bearing-plate Z, bolted thereto and having a hole 1, which takes around the trunnion f. Thus the tub hangs from the two trunnions and may swing, while the arms (1 and horizontal bar e of the dasher remain stationary and rigid.

A dasher-framc L has two vertical boards or plates m, broader at the lower than the upper end and provided at the lower end with a notch e to take over the horizontal part c of the dasher-bar. These two boards m are connected by slats or cross-bars n, the ends of which project beyond the vertical boards on, and the parts named constitute the removable dasher-frame. It will be seen that the dasher-frame L may be set in and rest upon the dasher-bar O, and may be removed there from at any time.

The tub has at each of the two upper ends an inclined perforated plate 0, which forms an air-chamber 19 between said plate and the end of the tub. The lower edge of the per forated plate does not fit close against the tub end q; but a crack or space 9' intervenes.

A suitable cover If may be used to close the top of the tub, and a plug 8 in the bottom to draw off the water.

A handle or lever T has two forked arms a, which are bolted to the side of the tub, and the handle projects upward above the tub. By grasping the handle the tub may be oscillated, and at each swing of the tub the clothes or articles of clothing in the tub will be pressed between the stationary dasher-frame L and one of the perforated plates 0 on the tub, whereby the suds will be forced through the fabric and the washing done efiectively and quickly.

By the construction here shown of the dasher-bar O and frame L the latter may be removed at any time, which is important, particularly when about to take clothes out of the tub or when cleaning the tub.

The whole construction is simple, cheap, and 'du rable.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1.. An oscillating or swinging wash-tub having in combination a frame, a rigid and sta tionary dasher-bar provided with two trunnions f, supported on the frame and having two vertical side arms d, each attached to a different trunnion, and the lower end of the two arms connected by a horizontal part c, the tub having a segmentshaped bottom and its sides hung from the said two trunnions, and a removable frame supported on the said dasher-bar.

2. An oscillating or swinging wash-tub having in combination a rigid and stationary dasher-bar provided with two trunnions f, each having at its end a transverse plate g,

forming a T-shaped end, and having two ver- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in tieal side arms (7 each attached to a different the presence of two witnesses.

trunnion, and the lower end of the two arms connected by :1, horizontal part a, the tub hav- JOHN C. BURT. ing a seglnentshnped bottom and its sides hung from the said two trnnnions, and a \Vitnesses:

removable frame supported on said dasher- WM. L. WILSON,

bar. CHAS. I. TURNER. 

